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@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters +except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the +`Announce' file. + +Install by copying to your favourite location. +"make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. +"make" will move the pages from this package that are older than +the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed', +then remove old versions (compressed or not), +compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. + + +Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages. + +Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages +also distributed in other packages. This has been reported +about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3 (found in ld.so), +about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils), +and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to +overwrite more up-to-date versions. +Reports on further duplicates are welcome. +Formerly present and now removed duplicates: + *_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*), + exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*), + fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*), + lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*). + +Note that the pages that come with GNU fileutils are really +help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts), +and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good +detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1. +As it is, many distributions install these "man pages", +to the detriment of their users. + +Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights. +For the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT. +All other pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included. + +Send corrections and additions to mtk-manpages@gmx.net +(man.7 has some info on the macros to use). |